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Anna Jameson: What we truly...

Anna Jameson: What we truly...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the...

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Barbara Sher: The amount of...

Barbara Sher: The amount of...

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Source:...

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Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Source: The...

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Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to...

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Susan L Taylor: We need quiet...

Susan L Taylor: We need quiet...

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an...

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Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Source: The Second...

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Martha Gellhorn: I see mysteries...

Martha Gellhorn: I see mysteries...

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical...

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Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of...

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Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest...

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Diane Sawyer: I'm always fascinated...

Diane Sawyer: I'm always fascinated...

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Source: TV Guide.
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Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

Anne Frank: How wonderful it...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier...

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Marge Piercy: The will to...

Marge Piercy: The will to...

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Peggy Noonan: Sincerity and competence...

Peggy Noonan: Sincerity and competence...

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

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Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: A fondness for...

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in...

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